It’s now been nearly ten years since the most recent installment in the RoboCop franchise, that film of course being the 2014 remake, but the property certainly hasn’t gone anywhere. For starters, new video game RoboCop: Rogue City is coming later this year, and the comprehensive documentary RoboDoc is headed to SCREAMBOX this year as well.
Additionally, Deadline reports today that RoboCop is one of the MGM franchises that Amazon is hungry to bring back to life, now that Amazon owns that vast MGM library.
Deadline reports, “For the past year, since the deal closed in March 2022, Amazon Studios has been sifting through MGM’s library, identifying about a dozen initial titles for film and/or TV development, including Robocop, Stargate, Legally Blonde, Fame, Barbershop, The Magnificent Seven, Pink Panther and The Thomas Crown Affair.”
The site’s report continues, “Robocop also is being talked about for both film and TV, with a TV show possibly first, Deadline hears.”
This wouldn’t be the first time RoboCop has gotten his own TV series. After three films in the franchise back in 1994, you may recall, RoboCop debuted on the small screen. Produced by Canada’s Skyvision Entertainment, RoboCop: The Series starred Richard Eden in the title role. An 89-minute pilot aired in two parts in March, followed by 21 one-hour episodes.
On the film front, the most recent RoboCop project to pop up was a planned film titled RoboCop Returns, set to be directed by Abe Forsythe (Little Monsters). That project, however, is likely no more now that Amazon is in charge of the MGM property. The ball is entirely in Amazon’s court at this point, and it sounds like they’re itching to start playing with it.
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
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